This morning after I woke up and dragged myself to the gym, I was driving to Walgreens to pick up a few items. Across the street in yet another strip mall was an optical shop. The name of said shop? Eye Iota.
I wouldn't ever set foot in such a stupid sounding business. Just couldn't do it. There was a salad bar place in Atlanta when I was living there, called Lettuce Surprise You.
First off that's just a terrible pun, and secondly I don't think the word surprise should ever be included in a salad bar.
My point is, I guess I'm picky.
I notice signage, I read table cards at restaurants, I will notice a well-crafted headline on a napkin. This is part of the job. Life of a copywriter is one where you'll never casually look through an ad in a magazine.
If it's well done, I stop and read. And if it's horrible I often imagine how things must've went south after the client meeting. Or the creatives tasked with the job had there hands tied the whole time, and thus ended up with something like this:
A diversity ad for a job fair. The visual? A big rubber band ball with you guessed it, multi-colored rubber bands. The headline: Diversity: It's what bands us together.
True story. I didn't write that line. I was forced to put it in the ad by a controlling client, whom I have no idea what happened to them.
Perhaps they took a job at Hallmark. Or maybe they're out shopping at Talking Book World (another good title ).
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